Hi, On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 04:28:57PM +0100, Erwin Burgstaller wrote: > The ec_* network driver modules do not work without the EtherCAT master > loaded. So the master itself would have to be part of the kernel first.
... and it's definitely not a good idea to embed EtherCAT logic in every network driver in the kernel. ;-) There is an initiative to implement an "ultra-raw" socket interface for directly sending and receiving Ethernet frames, but some kernel developers have concerns about it, because this could be used to implement an 3rd-party IP-stack... As long as there is no interface like this, we'll have to keep on patching Ethernet drivers... :-( -- Best regards, Florian Pose http://etherlab.org _______________________________________________ etherlab-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.etherlab.org/mailman/listinfo/etherlab-users
